Type-writing machine.



V. A. E. SIVERTSEN & J. G. NIELSEN.

TYPE WRITING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED APBJJ, 1909.

Patented Oct. 4, 1910.

VE ZZneSSeS UNITED srrATEs PATENT OFFICE.

VICTOR, ALBERT EMANUEL S'IVERTSEN AND JEN S CHRISTIAN NIELSEN, OF COPEN- HAG-EN, DENMARK, ASSIGNORS TO UNION TYPEWRITER COMPANY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

TYPE-WRITING MACHINE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 4, 1910.

Applicationfiled April 8, 1909. Serial No. 488,675.

respectively, at'Helgolandsgade No. 16, and

Sofievej No.12, Copenhagen, Denmark,l1ave invented a new and useful Improvement in Type-WritingMachines;- and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

Our invention-relates to typewriting'machines and more particularly to tabulating mechanism.

'In tabulating mechanism heretofore employed it has been customary to use a column stop rod or rack with a notch for each indeX on the carriage scale or for each letter space position of the carriage in its line of travel. Column stops were ordinarily adjustable along the stop rod or rack, being seated in different notches and arranged for cooperation with one or more tabulating stops so that when the carriage was released certain of the tabu'lating stops would cooperate to arrest it. In the use of such adjustable column stops considerable time was required to set them or adjust them when a change from one character of work to another was made, and the work involved determining where to set the stops was somewhat troublesome.

Oneof the main objects of the-present invention is to overcome these difficulties and to provide comparatively simple and efficient mechanism for quickly determining the proper positions of arrest of the carriage and for readily setting the tabulating mechanism accordingly.

A further object of my invention is to provide means. for readily clearing all of the previously set stops, when the work is such as to require the use of differently arranged stops.

To the above and other ends which will hereinafter appear, our invention consists in thefeatures of construction, arrangements .of parts and combinations of dev ces to be hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings wherein like reference characters indicate corresponding parts in the various views, Figure 1 is a vertical, central, fore and aft sectional View, of oneform of typewriting machines embodying our invention, only so much of the machine being shown as is necessary to illustrate the invention in its embodiment therein. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail top view, partly in sec tion, of the stop carrying rod, the stops carried thereby and the clearing bar. Figs.

4 and 5 are transverse sectional views of the same.

In the present instance 'we have shown our invention embodied in a No. 11 Remington machine which contains a decimal or denominational tabulator.

carriage in the usual manner which travels across the top plate from side to side of the machine and is provided with arms I) which carry a stop rod or bar 0 provided with column stops (Z. During the travel of the carriage the stop rod 0 is moved with the carriage carrying the column'stops past the denominational stops e, only one of the denominational stops being shown. The stop rod 0 is hollowand its front and rear walls are provided with narrow apertures or slots, each registering pair of which corresponds to a letter space position of the carriage or to one of the indices on the scale. stops (Z, preferably equal in number to the slots in the stop rod, are inserted in said apertures in the stop rod and may be pushed forward or backward therein but are held in the forwarder backward position to which they are moved by suit-able friction springs f as indicated in Figs. 4 and 5.

At one side of the denominational keys of the tabulator, or in some other convenient place, is arranged aspecial projecting key g by means of which itis possible to push rearwardly or to project to the operative 'position, any of the column stops (Z depending on the'letter space position of the carriage when the projecting key 9 is actuated, so that the position of the carriage determines ,thp selection of the column stops and the COllUl'lHnI' position inwhich the carriage may afterward be arrested by the co operation of the denominational stops 0 with the projected or active column stops (1. In

Column end of the lever n orms what may be termed a projector or finger p which is in substantial alinement fore and aft of the machine with the first or left-hand one of the series of denominational stops e as shown in Fig. 2. The travel of the carriage brings the column stops d successivel into register with the finger p and renders t e finger operative on the column stop which happens to be in register therewith when the key 9 is depressed. Thus pressing down the projecting key 9 brings the finger p into engage,- ment with and pushesthe column stop (1 in 'front of the finger rearwardly into active or operative position where it is maintained by its friction spring 7. The projecting key 9 andthe finger p are returned to normal position by a'spring r. In Fig. 2 8 indicates one of the column stops which has been pushed into its active or opreative position'while all the rest of the column stops shown in this view are in inoperative position. The returning of the column stops to inactive position can be effected in various ways. A simple and efiicient form of mechanism for accomplishing this purpose is shown in the drawings. In this construction each of the column stops at has a square opening 0 extending therethrough. A clearing or restoring rod or bar it extends through the openings 12 in the series of column stops and is rounded at its ends to form pivots which turn in bearings in the ends of the hollow stop bar 0 so that the clearing bar at is enabled to turn on its longitudinal axis. One end of the bar it extends beyond the end of the hollow stop bar where it is provided with a thumb button or finger wheel t by-means of which the clearing rod canbe turned. The rod u is normally turned on its pivots to the position shown inFigs. 3 and 4, owing to the action of a coiled spring m which surrounds the rod near one end thereof and has one end connected to the clearing rod or bar a and the other end connected to the 7 different character of work, requiring the hollow stop bar 0. When the clearing bar is in the normal position any of the column stops can be pushed into active or operative position by the finger p and may continue to move rearwardly until the forward wall of the opening 1; in the-stop d meets the forward edge of the clearing rod it, thus limiting the stroke of the stop.

. From an inspection of Fig. 3 it will be seen that that portion of the bar it with which the column stops cooperate is fiat and is off-set from the axial center of the clearwhee 15, the eccentric edge or portion of the clearing bar or rod will contact with the forward 'walls of the openings 1; in all of the columnstops which have been moved to operative position and will clear" or move all of such stops back to inoperative position as indicated in Fig. 5. If the thumb wheel tis then released the rod u will be returned by the spring to to normal position independently of the column stops 0? as shown in Fig. 3.

In use it may be assumed, for instance, that a letter is to be written in which vertical rowsof names and amounts are to be written, which names and amounts in the different lines are to be placed exactly under each other. It is only necessary when the carriage is moved to the position where the first letter of a name or the like is to be written, as at l5 on the carriage scale, to press down the key" 9. This moves the column stop d at l5 which is opposite the column stop projecting finger 3; into operative position and thereafter during the tabulating operation the projected column stop will co-act with the decimal stop 6 at the same point 15 in the travel of the carriage where the c rriage was arrested to select the column top and in the desired position Where the name is to be started. If the operator desires to set a column stop to Write, for instance, an amount in the same line at, say, 55 on the carriage scale, it

is only necessary, in a decimal tabulator, to

press'down the key 9 when the carriage is found at the point where the decimal point is to be Written at '55 on the carriage scale. This projects a column stop at 55 to arrest the carriage at such position when the decimal key is depressed. If in the next and subsequent lines a name and amount are to be-written exactly under the first ones no further setting of the stops is required and only those column stops are eiiective which have been moved to the operative position by the actuation of the key. 9 in the manner described.

.When the tabulatoiis to be set for a be moved to normal position by the spring as. The new column stops may then be individually selected and projected to operative position as before.

It will be understood that an essential ad- 'antage of the device is that the column stops are, by pressure on the key 9 individually setup while writing the first line,

so as to avoid calculating beforehand the positions where the stops are to be set or positioned, the position of the carriage in the present structure aiding in determining theselection ot' the column stop to be used for that particular point of arrest.

The construction described shows but one example of, a construction embodying our invention and different details can be varied without departing from the spirit of the invention. i

One of the characteristic features of the invention is the provision of a stop for each index on the scale or for each letter space position of the carriage; or at any rate for 209 each index on the carriage scale or each letter space position of the carriage where ordinarily such stops would be employed and the provision of means whereby each of said stops can be thrown into and out of operative position.

What we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a carriage; a series of stops; means by which said stops may be moved to operative position and by which the stop which may be so moved to operative position clepends on the position of the carriage in its travel; and a cooperative stop.

9'. In a typew *iting machine, the combination of a carriage; a series of column stops;

means by which said stops may be moved individually to operative position and by which the stop which may be so moved to perative position dzpend's on the position of the carriage in its travel, said means including a key actuated member cooperative with the column stops; and a cooperative stop.

3. In a typewritinp; machine, the combination of a carriage; a series of column stops normally in the inoperative position; means by which the stops may be moved individually to operative position and by which the stop which may be so moved to operative position in each instance depends on the position of the carriage .in its travel; and key controlled denominational stops cooperative only with the column stops which have been moved to operative position.

at. In a typewriting machine and-tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a series of column stops carried by the carriage; means carried by the frame of the machine for projecting said column stops separately to operative position; a coiiperative stop carried by the frame of the machine; and key controlled'means for projecting said coo erativ. stop into the path of the projected column stop or stops.

5. In a typewriting' machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a series of column stops carried by the carriage; means carried by the frame of the machine for projecting said column stops separately to operative position; a series of cooperative denominational stops carried by the frame of the machine; and key controlled means forprojecting said denominational stops into the path of the projected column stop or stops.

6. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a series of column stops carried by the carriage; means carried by the frame of the machine for projecting said column stops separately to operative position, the travel of the carriage effecting a relative movement between said column stops and said projecting means, whereby the column stop which may be projected to operative position by said projecting means in each instance depends on the position of the carriage in its travel; a cooperative stop carried by the frame of the machine; and key controlled means for projecting said cooperative stop into the path of the projected column stop or stops.

7. In a typewritingr machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a series of column stops situated a letter-space distance apart and mounted for individual movement into and out of operative position and for maintenance indefinitely in either of such positions; key actuated means for moving any desired individual column stop to operative position; a cooperative stop; and key controlled means for moving said cooperative stop to a position where it will cooperate only with the column stop or stops which are in the operative position.

8. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism,'the combination of a car-' riage; a machine frame; a series of column stops on one of said parts; a pro ector on the other of sa1d parts. said pro ector being rendered operative to move different column stops to operative position by the movement ot the carnage; and a cooperating stop.

In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a machine frame; a series of column stops'on one of said parts; a projector on the other of said parts; said projector being cooperative individually with the column stops and rendered operative to move different column stops individually to oper: tive positionby the movement of the carriage, whereby the column stop which may be selecteddepends on the position or" the carriage along the line of its travel; and a cooperative stop.

10. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a machine frame; a series of column stops on one of said parts; a projector on the other of said parts, said projector being rendered operative to move different column stops to operative position by the movement of the carriage; a series of denominational stops; and key actuated means for projecting said denominational stops into operative position to co-act with the operative column stops only.

11. In a typewriting'machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a series of stops; means by which.

said stops may be moved or projected to operative position and by which the stop which may be so projected to operative position depends on the position of the carriage in its travel; means independent of thecolumn stop which may be so projected depends on the position of the carriage in its travel; a key controlled cooperative stop; and means independent of said projecting means for resetting all of the projected column stops to inoperative position.

13. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism the combination of a carriage; a-series of column stops carried by the carriage; means carried by the frame of the machine for projecting said column stops separately to operative position; a cooperative stop carried by the frame of the machine; key controlled means for projecting said cooperative stop into the path of the projected column stop or stops; and means independent of the column-stopprojectingmeans for resetting all of the projected column stops to inoperative position.

14. In a typewriting machine and tabulatmg mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a series of column stops carried by the carriage; means carried by the frame of the machine for projecting said column stops separately to operative position; a coopera tive stop carried by the frame of the ma: chine; key controlled means for projecting said cooperative stop into the path of the projected column stop or stops; and means independent of said column-stop-projecting means for resetting all of the projected column stops to inoperative position. v

15. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a series of column stops situated a letter-space distance apart and mounted for individual movement into and out of operaovneee tive position and for maintenance indefinitely in either of such positions; key actuated means for moving any desired individual column stop to operative position; a co'opeatii-e stop; key controlledineans for moving said cooperative stop to a position where it will cooperate only with column stops which arein the operative position; and means independent of said columnstop-moving-means for resetting all of the operative column stops to inoperative position.

16. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanisnnthe combination of a carria-ge; a machine frame; a series of column stops on one of said parts; a projector on the other of said parts, said projector being cooperative individually with the column stops, the column stop which may be pro-' j ected depending on the position of the carriage along the line of its travel; a cooperat-ing stop; and means independent of said projector for resetting all of the operative column stops to inoperative position.

17. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a series of column stops one for each letter space movement of the carriage, said column stops being mounted for individual movement into and out of operative position; a projector cooperative with all of said column stops individually, the particular column stop with which the projector is adapted to co-act depending on the position of the carriage along its line of travel; and a key actuated stop cooperative with said column stop.

18. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a series ofcolumn stops, onefor each letter space movement of the carriage, said column stops being mounted for individual movement into and out of operative position; a projector cooperative with all of said column stops individually, the articular column stop with which the pro ector is adapted to co-act depending on the position of the carriage along its line of travel; means for resetting all of the operative column stops to inoperative position; a cotip: erative stop; and key actuated means for ro'ectin said coo )erative sto into 006 erative relation with the operative'coluann stops.

19. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination'of a carriage; a series of column stops, one for each letter space In vement of the carriage, said column stops being mounted for individual movement into and out of operative position; a projector cooperative with all of said column stops individually column stop with which the projector is adapted to co-act depending on the position the particular of the carriage along its line of travel; means for resetting all of the operative column stops to inoperative position; a set of denominational stops; and key actuated means for projecting each of said denomina-' tional stops into cooperative relation wit-h the operative column stops.

20. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a series of column stops, one for each letter space movement of the carriage, said column stops being mounted on the carriage for individual movement thereon into and out of operative position and adapted to remain indefinitely in either of said positions to which they may be set; a key actuated projector carried by the frame of the machine and with which said column stops are adapted to register successively, the particular column stop with which the projector is adapted to co-act depending on the position of the carriage along its line of travel; and a key actuated stop cotiperative with said'column stops. I

21. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a series of column stops, one for each letter space movement of the carriage, said column stops being mounted on the carriage for individual movement thereon into and out of operative position, and adapted to re- .main indefinitely in either of said positions to which they may be set; a key actuated projector carried by the frame ofthe ma-' chine and with which said column stops are adapted to register successively, the particular column stop with which the projector is adapted to co-act depending on the position of the carriage along its line of travel; means for simultaneously resetting all of the operative column stops to inoperative position; a set of denominational stops carried by the frame of the machine; and key actuated means for projecting each of said denominational stops individually into the path of the operative column stops.

22. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a car-.

riage; a series of column stops, one for each letter'space movementof the carriage, said column stops being mounted for individual movement into and out of operative position; a projector cooperative with all of said column stops individually, the particular column stop with which the projector is adapted to co-act depending on the position of the carriage along its line of travel; means-for retaining said column stops indefinitely against accidental displacement in either the operative or inoperative position; a cooperative stop; and key actuated means for projecting said cooperative stop mto the path of the operative column stops. 23. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a series of stops; means bywhlch projected depends on the position of the carriage in its travel; and resetting means for moving the projected stops back to inoperative position, saidresetting means comprising a Wiper; and a cooperative stop.

24. In a typewriting machine'and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a series of column stops carried by the carriage: means carried by. the frame of the machine for projecting said column stops separately to operative position; a cooperative stop carried by the frame of the machine; resetting means for moving the projected column stop or stops back to inoperative position; said resetting means comprising a cam and hand actuated means for controlling the position of said cam; and key controlled means for projecting said cooperative stop into the path of the projected column stop 01' stops.

25. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a series of column stops situated a letter-space distance apart and mounted for individual movement into and out of operative position and for maintenance indefinitely in either of such positions; key actuated means for moving any desired individual column stop to operative position; re-' setting means for moving the' projected column stop or stops back to inoperative position, said resetting means comprising a cam, and hand actuated means for controlling the position of said cam; a stop cooperative with said column stops; and key controlled means for moving said cooperative stop to a position where it will cooperate only with the column stop 01' stops which are in the operative'position.

26. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a machine frame; a series of column stops on one of said parts; a projector onthe other of said parts, said projector being cooperative individually with the column' stops and rendered operative to move different column stops individually to operative position'by the niovemcnt of the carriage, the column stop which may be projected depending on the position of the carriage along the line of its travel: a cooperative stop; and resetting means for moving the .operative column steps back to inoperative versely of the column stop' bar into and out of operative position, frictional means for retaining the column stops against accidental displacement from either of the'said positions to which it may be moved, a bar cooperative with said column stops to limit the movements thereof in one direction and with each or said stops to retain it against accidental displacement from either of said positions to which it may be. moved, and means for preventing said stops from being accidentally displaced from. said bar.

29. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage, a column stop bar, a series of column stops mounted on said column stop bar for individual movement thereon into and out of operative position, a spring associated with each of said stops to retain it against accidental displacement from either of said positions to which it may be moved, and projecting means cooperative individually with said column stops to move them individually to operative position.

30. In a tabulating device for typewriting machines, the combination of a carriage, a series of stops carried by'said carriage, and means on the frame of the machine for pro jecting said stops individually into operative position. I

31. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a carriage, a series of column stops, means for positioning the stops in operative position, and means controlled by the movement of the carriage for efiecting a relative movement between the said positioning means'and said stops to enable the positioning means to position difierent column stops successively in the operative position.

32. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a carriage; a series of column stops; and means by which the column stops are individually rendered operative, the various positions of the carriage determining the various positions at which the stops are'to be placed in operative positions.

334In a typewriting machine, the combination of a carriage; a series of column stops; means for positioning the stops in operative position, and means controlled by the movement of the carriage for eflecting a relative movement between said positioning means and said stops 'to enable the positioning means to position diiferent column stops successively in the operative position, said means comprising a key actuated device for moving the column stops individually to operative position.

34. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a carriage, a series of column stops, a projector, and means by which said projector is rendered operative on different column stops to move them one at a time to operative position.-

35. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a carriage, a series of column stops adapted to be moved to operative position on the carriage, and means for moving said stops to their operative positions individually, the arious positions of the'carriage determining the various positions at which the stops are to be placed in operative position.

36.In a typewrit-ing machine, the combination of a column stop bar; a series of column stops; and means by which the column stops may be moved individually to operative position at different points along the column stop bar and by which the POSllJiOIb' ing of each stop in operative position on the column stop bar depends on the position of the carriage in its line of travel.

37. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a carriage; a column stop bar carried thereby; a series of normally inoperative column stops; and means by which said column stops are moved individually to operative position on the column stop bar, said means including a key operated device on the frame of the machine cooperative with but one column stop at a time and adapted to move each stop separately .to operative position on the column stop bar.

38. In a typewriting machine, the combi nation of a series of column stops movable into and out of operative position and adapted to remain indefinitely in either of the said positions to which they may be moved; and means for rendering said stops operative, said means comprising a keyactuated projector operative individually on the column stops.

39. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a series of column stops; a projector for projecting said stops one at a the stops out of operative position, one of said devices being carried by one of said frame and carriage parts, and the column stops being carried by the other of said parts.

41. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a column stop, a key for moving said stop, the key being normally disconnected from said stop, andmeans for maintaining said stop indefinitely in the position to which it is moved by said key.

, 42. In a typewriting machine and tabulatmg mechanism, the combination of a column stop and a key at the keyboard for moving said stop, the key being normally disconnected from said stop, and means for maintaining said stop indefinitely in the position to which it is moved by said key.

43. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a plurality of column stops and a key for successively moving said stops, the key being normally disconnected from said stops.

In testimony whereof, We have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

VICTOR ALBERT EMANUEL SIVERTSEN. JENS CHRISTIAN NIELSEN. WVitnesses.

Fnmscrnm, C. V. SCHON. 

